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http://dailyabsurdist.blogspot.com/2010/06/look-for-union-label.html

labels definitely have their use. i personally hate them for the most part, and try to avoid using them as much as possible. the generalizations that they presume to encapsulate are too often the kind of generalizations that lead to/from groupthink.

if everyone saw themselves and others as individuals, the only labels would be actual names and purely (and hopefully often humorously) descriptive terms. even if someone was offended, they wouldn't so easily jump directly to: "oh, so you hate ALL big-nosed people from the middle east!" no, dipshit, i'm talking about YOU.